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...rather drawing out into the open what is already there. Conservatives charge that the CLS faction of the Law School faculty has "manipulated" the tenure process to hire more left faculty members. But how can anybody claim that CLS proponents have perverted something for which there is no objective norm, something that is already a debate and a political process? The reasonableness of the tenure process--likewise of the "science" of legal analysis which presumes to logically deduce the one right answer to legal questions--only enshrines existing power relations. That's why there aren't any tenured Black faculty...
...beginning to realize that intelligence doesn't hurt hockey players," Norm Kwong, part-owner of the Calgary Flames, jokes...
...Johnson figures he knows the secret to success. Sometimes he's right; more often, he's not. The propects fall into two general categories: those who attempt to stand out with outrageous garb and Soho hair, and those who try to blend in with what they consider the "cool norm...
...notion of that norm is not universal...
Mary Kay Cosmetics has become famous for rewarding its top sales women with pink Cadillacs, diamond-studded bumblebee pins and expense-paid trips to Hawaii. Such glitzy incentives are not the norm among publicly traded companies, but Mary Kay (1984 sales: $278 million) does not have to worry. It will no longer be listed on any exchange. The company's directors last week agreed to sell the firm for $300 million to a group headed by Chairman Mary Kay Ash and her son Richard Rogers, the president...